Birgitta Svendén

Birgitta Svendén (née Lundberg, 20 March 1952), is a Swedish operatic mezzo-soprano.

Svendén was born in Porjus and then raised in Vuollerim. She studied at Operahögskolan in Stockholm, and later embarked on an international career in the first place as a Wagner singer, especially at the Bayreuth Festival where she sang several performances between 1983 and 1999, many of those as Erda. She was als… More